Photo-Realistic Outdoors Scene Visualizations with PCs

Even though we are not aware of the some effects of computer games and similar applications that offer high reality visualization, they made virtual reality a part of our technological life. Current technology demos already shown that it is possible to visualize the growth of a grass and micro details on its surface by using upcoming game consoles. Such cutting-edge applications designed by talented graphics artists and realized by industries most smart software developers set new standards for virtual reality applications. No matter what type of real environments visualization you are working on, you should meet many standards defined by other virtual reality applications. In this study, we tried to develop software that can be used to visualize outdoors scene of the landscapes that really exist on the earth. Instead of texture-mapped model scenes we tried to generate virtual worlds that simulate the dynamism of the life as it is. In order to increase the usage areas we used on-the-shelf PC hardware. Our software can be evaluated as satisfactory considering the quality of the scenes and rendering performance. 1 This work is supported by 3D TV European Network of Exellence funded by the EC 6th Framework IST Programme.